The City of Cartagena is going to impart, from this Tuesday, November 6, several training courses in Basic Life Support and use of defibrillators (DEA), through the CCC Project.
These courses are aimed at entities outside the City (schools, shops, sports entities, neighborhood associations, etc.), the only requirement to participate in them is to have an AED and join the project, which implies that the DEA and the trained people will be willing to help the citizen in case of need.
It is intended that all DEAs located in Cartagena, progressively, become part of the map of resources both in the city and at the community level.
These courses are held in the facilities of the ESPAC (School of Public Safety) and comply with the regulations of the CARM, so that students once they finish the course will be accredited and trained and can perform in case a CPR is required. high quality.
By joining the CCC Project, the City Council will provide the signage and information signs, in this way it will be possible for the information to the citizen to be unique.
Among the entities that will form part of its staff are the Hispania College, the San Juan Bosco Salesian College, the Mediterranean Municipal Sports Center, the Cartagena Rugby Club, AAVV Galifa, shops attached to the open Shopping Center.
CARTAGENA PRESENT AT THE II SPANISH RCP CONGRESS
The Spanish Council of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CERCP) has considered Cartagena as an example of a municipality that is working in the right direction to become a cardio-insured city.
This has been highlighted during the II Spanish Congress of CPR that has been held in Malaga.
The director of the Cartagena Cardio-Protected City Project, Dr. Antonio Pastor Clemente, attended the meeting together with the doctor of 061, Dr. Ignacio Gómez La Rosa and the nurse and firefighter of Cartagena, Mr. Carlos Enrique Bazar Ferrero.
The project has made all the DEA of the municipal area become part of the ARIADNA Program (national program prepared by the Spanish Society of Cardiology together with the CERCP and other state agencies), so in a short time we will have in real time and at the disposal of both the citizen and the emergency services, the location of all active AEDs, this is a great step forward, since it is a national project.
In this II Spanish Congress of the CERCP it has been possible to confirm the importance of having more and more people trained and knowledgeable to practice resuscitation maneuvers and the application of an AED. The need to modernize the various regional legislations has also been highlighted. trying to make them more affordable to the citizen and that can be used in case of need of the DEA regardless of the degree of knowledge you have, that is, is committed to training and decriminalize the use of the DEA by the citizen.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena